Google Apps News & Articles

This week we saw Google move from taking a bite out of Microsoft’s pie to their first all-out attempt at devouring it whole. What we’re talking about, of course, is the Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool.

If this is how we’re fighting now, then, well: Things just. Got. Interesting.
 

Ask Google Marketplace launch partner Zoho (news, site) why they wanted to integrate with Google Apps, and they’ll tell you it’s because e-mail is the most critical browser tab there is in the business world. Confused? Zoho’s CEO Sridhar Vembu recently shed light on a choice many have made since the marketplace announcement, as well as offered his own opinion about the future of the enterprise (note: it doesn’t look like Facebook).  

Do Google's recent moves spell trouble for Microsoft? Google seems to think so, and they're doing absolutely nothing to hide that opinion. In fact, today the G team released a tool called Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, which makes switching over a piece of cake.

IT management software company CA (news, site)  has announced that it has just closed a cash deal worth US$ 350 million to buy monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft.

The Islandia, NY-based giant says this acquisition will open up a whole new customer base of midmarket/emerging enterprises and management service providers (MSPs).

Erm, remember Google Wave? You know, that thing with all the things, and the chatting and the e-mailing, and the collaboration. Well, it just got more things. Google introduced the Google Wave Extensions Gallery bright and early this morning. Developers? For the sake of Wave, please get on this.  

So, the announement of the Google Marketplace was a pretty big deal, wouldn’t you say?

The excitement revolving around the new development goes to show how ready and willing most of us are to pack up and move to the cloud, and the Google brand is obviously going to play a major part in getting us there. 

This week, Facebook takes more SMBs into more advertising markets in more cities, while HyperOffice finally releases its “no geek required” suite of collaboration tools for business users.

Google set off an enterprise-tastic bomb last night when they announced the opening of Google Marketplace, an online store for business apps. Now, we can’t help but wonder, is Microsoft an impending casualty?  

After weeks of rumors, Google (news, site) finally launched Google Apps Marketplace, their new online store for business applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps.

The launch will add an aggressive edge to their Google Apps marketing push, and will also put pressure on other cloud stores like Salesforce.com’s AppExchange and Apple’s AppStore.

No longer in beta form and poised to snatch a portion of the market typically commanded by the stalwart Microsoft Office software suite -- Google Docs is providing an as-of-yet unrivaled online document editing and collaboration platform for the masses. Here's 7 ways you can use it even better.

Is Google getting ready to launch a store for Apps this week? Rumor says so.  

Google’s made yet another purchase. Rumor has it this time they’ve spent somewhere around US$ 25 million on DocVerse (news, site), a San Francisco-based technology startup that allows people to collaborate on Microsoft Office files online.

Hey enterprise folk, how would you like a tool that relieves all concerns over backups or disaster recovery? Today Google announced such a feature (and it’s free).  

We know there is increasing competition for cloud-based services. But one of the biggest competitions -- between Google (news, site) and Microsoft (news, site) -- just got a little more interesting when a Microsoft written Hosted Services Comparison Whitepaper crossed our paths. Do you know which set of cloud-services is better? Microsoft thinks they do.

That’s right, Zoho (news, site) and Facebook (news, site) sitting in a tree, c-o-n-n(ect)i-n-g.

With already-established support for Google Apps and Yahoo accounts, yesterday Zoho added a social layer by integrating the ability to login through Facebook Connect.